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briggs today we're looking at our friends to
the north again canada i did a few videos on secluded towns
here in the united states last year i'm getting ready to do another one for the
united states but we started looking at secluded towns in canada last month they
have so many that are so much further off the beaten path than the united
states does it's crazy according to canada's census there's
over 1 000 towns or villages some of them are out in the sticks with
only about 5 or 10 people living there we are only going to be looking at towns
with at least 20 residents well number 10 did now they don't but they
have a really great story so it's on the list
i've been to none of these towns so the footage is limited i just may have to
show you where they are on the map and then have some random footage of the
canadian outback not australian canadian outback
there perfect there's a lot of open land in canada and a lot of distance between
towns we'll be doing a second video on secluded towns
in the future so if you have any suggestions please let us know in the
comment section all right in no particular order let's
see what we found number 10 little bay island little bay
island is a nearly vacant town in newfoundland canada newfoundland
labrador area it consists of six small islands little bay island mack
island goat island harbor island and boatswain tickle island
boatswain tickle that sounds like a festival for kinky sailors
anyway in february of 1999 55 permanent residents voted to be relocated and
nearly all of the island's residents departed in
late december of 2019 this was part of a relocation program
operated by the provincial government for small communities that had become
too expensive to service you know basically they got to send all kinds of
supplies out there and everything else i got it just
wasn't worth it for the small amount of people so they offered them a deal
the property owners who were permanent residents were paid at least 250
000 in compensation for their property if they would leave
they did all but two of them they decided to stay to live off the grid
installing solar panels and wireless internet
the couple who decided to remain on the island georgina
and michael parsons told the news media in autumn of 2019 that they were
prepared to live off the grid in their recently built home with a well
providing drinking water and you know all kinds of stuff they got solar panels
snowmobiles cell phones they even got a boat so they get back to the mainland
because ferry service was discontinued on
january 1st 2020 so yeah they were completely cut off
they wanted to go someplace they got to do it on their own
number nine stony rapids saskatchewan this is one of those places where you
have to worry about being eaten more than being a victim of a
crime they have almost 250 residents with the potential of that dropping
lower every bear season is there an actual
bear season i don't know it sounded good anyway
this place is out in the sticks there's only one road out of town
it's unpaved and it goes to black lake which is about 20 minutes away or two
hours if a bear eats your tires after that you have points north landing
about 185 kilometers away or 115 miles it's unpaved road and it's closed most
of the winter they also have one of those ice road
trucker things going on in the winter to uranium city yeah you
heard me right it's called uranium city stoney rapids relies on stony rapids
airport for all its vital transportation including a lot of its supplies the
average high summer temperature is 22 degrees celsius 72 degrees
fahrenheit that's in july that's about as warm as it gets they had
like record high and it was like 82 degrees one time
the winter stay below zero most of the time with the harsher days sitting
somewhere around minus 30 degrees celsius minus 22
degrees fahrenheit bundle up and gain some weight would be
some solid advice for living in stony rapids
number eight saks harbor northwest territory saks harbor has about 90
full-time residents that live above the arctic circle
this is a great place to live if you hate warm weather the sun
grass trees bushes competitive games of hide and seek
and not eating seals yeah they eat seals here and there's
no bushes no grasses no trees so you know hiding seeks completely out of the
question this place looks like a cold dirt
parking lot with an ocean view and a few houses
it's 500 kilometers from inuvik where they get most of their supplies
by water or air in the summer dog sled in the winter it's the only permanent
settlement on the world's 24th largest island banks island that's
pretty cool saks harbor is well above the arctic
circle meaning it gets days and days of darkness in the
winter and days of days of sun in the summer
just about everything the residents do in this community revolve around fishing
hunting and travel travel means you get out of this
place many of the residents have considerable knowledge of weather
conditions permafrost and even erosion patterns
yeah so they live above the arctic circle and they're starting to notice
that the sea ice has been breaking up earlier and earlier taking the seals
further south in the summer seals are like i said the main source of
food for this town and i've never had sealed but i imagine
it tastes a lot like chicken the town was named after the ship mary
sacks which was part of the canadian arctic expedition
in 1913. yeah 90 people live here that's crazy
number seven greece fjord nanofoot the indigenous people's
name for this place means the place that never thaws
that should tell you greece ford is a good place to own several pairs of
thermal underwear 129 people live in this town and they
shouldn't they have signs in the town warning you to look
out for polar bears they have cruises to this place they're
smaller cruise ships less than a thousand people on board but they're
definitely cruise ships if i took one of these cruises with my wife i would see
that sign and get us both back on the ship this is
the largest community on ellesmere island the town
also holds the distinction as one of the coldest inhabited places in the world
with an average yearly temperature of minus
16 degrees celsius yeah that's rough the town was a settlement
that was created by the canadian government in 1953 partly to assert
sovereignty in the high arctic region during the
cold war eight families were relocated and promised homes
and game to hunt only to realize that there were no buildings when they got
there and very little familiar wildlife that they
were used to hunting they were also told that they would be able to return home
after a year if they wished but this offer was later withdrawn
as it would damage canada's claim to sovereignty of the area they were forced
to stay basically they eventually learned about the beluga
whales migration routes and were able to survive the area
the houses are wooden and built on platforms to cope with the freezing and
thawing of the permafrost this place is crazy cold i watched some
videos of those small cruise ships going there
and yeah everyone's wearing like parkas you only see their eyeballs sticking out
of their jackets it's pretty weird number six
kagaska quebec now i hope i pronounced that right i tried and i couldn't figure
out how to pronounce it anyway in 1831 kaguska was the site of a hudson bay
company trading post but the actual settlement was formed later
in 1852 when settlers came from magdalen island
later the original settlers abandoned the place somewhere around 1871 to 73
and were replaced by newfoundland fishermen
almost all of irish descent they eventually abandoned the place too
but in 1898 a few families relocated from perth ontario and the descendants
still live there to this day most the people there are related to them some
way or another these days the area attracts the outdoor types drawn in by
excellent hiking wildlife and sea kayaking
there's a bunch of motorcycle videos of people
riding motorcycles out to this place it's like one of those touring bike type
destinations they get on the road and they just take some forever to get there
the motorcycles with camping gear on it that type thing
they have 92 permanent residents and this is one of those places that
gets cut off from the rest of the world during the winter just about
number five keels newfoundland and labrador heels is a small town in the
canadian province of newfoundland and labrador
this one sort of isn't far away from everything as much as how it's far away
from anything that can be a legit town they have a bunch of small villages with
10 to 20 people but nothing real for at least an hour in good weather
driving like many outport villages in newfoundland the population has been
shrinking with the collapse of the cod fishing industry yeah
there's been a collapse in the cod fishing industry the atlantic fishery
abruptly collapsed in 1993 following overfishing since the late
1950s they had a warning sign in the 1970s with a partial collapse but they
didn't learn their lesson 93 it finally failed it's expected to
recover to historical sustainable levels in 2030 so
they got another 10 years of no fish in there the community
is somewhat of a tourist attraction because it is one of the smallest and
oldest communities in newfoundland and because of the small beaches it's
perfect for collecting seashells so people love to visit this place i saw
tons of videos of people going out to visit this place there's nothing to this
little town it's got a nice looking tea room there's only 51 people that live
here on the regular number four alert none of
it alert is the northern most permanently
inhabited place in the world yeah it's got 62 residents and it's only
500 miles from the north pole the only people that live here
are soldiers and scientists it gets more sun
than any place else in canada in fact it gets too much sun alert is well above
the arctic circle which means the sun doesn't really set
all summer long it experiences what they call the midnight sun from april 7th to
september 4th meaning there's always sun in the sky
i would need theater curtains a sleeping mask and a darth vader helmet just to
get some sleep here i need darkness to sleep it's weird and in
the winter it's just the opposite you know the time i could sleep it stays
dark from october 14th to about february 28th the average monthly
temperatures are only above freezing in july and august with an average
temperature of 38 degrees fahrenheit during those
two months number three point lance newfoundland
and labrador point lance is a town in the canadian
province of newfoundland and labrador the town had a population of 102
residents in the canadian 2016 census it has a
beach honestly look at this this is their
entire wikipedia page that's exactly what it says
it has a beach you know i did some research and yes look at that
there it is they do have a beach they weren't lying so
it's about over a two-hour drive in good weather from
st john's and it's kind of on this point with nothing else going on there's a
couple other little villages with like 10 people in them but
saying point lance has a beach you know ridiculous
it has a beach kind of information is that it has a beach it's on an island of
course it has a beach number two fort nelson british columbia
fort nelson is named in honor of british naval hero horatio nelson
it was established by the northwest trading company in 1805 as a fur
trading post due to fires floods feuds and lack of a beach worth bragging about
like point lance this is fort nelson's fifth location
this has the largest population i think of any place on a secluded list i've
ever done they have just over 3 000 residents
if you want to drive to a bigger city you're looking at around 11 hour drive
out to edmonton yeah it's that far away during world war ii fort nelson airport
was actually a military airport that was used by the united states and
royal canadian air force times have been tough for
fort nelson since around 2008 when all the forestry mills officially you know
shut down then in 2014 oil collapsed along with the gas industry so it's been
rough and people have been flooding out of fort nelson for some time
the good news is real estate's getting cheaper every day
and number one watson lake yukon watson lake is a town in yukon canada
located at mile 635 on the alaskan highway not too far
north of the british columbia border watson lake has been losing residents
since the 1990 canadian census it shows no signs of that slowing
down they got nothing to keep people there keep trickling on
out of there the town is named after frank watson an american-born trapper
and prospector who settled in the area at the end of the 19th century
this place kind of cool it has a tourist attraction of sorts called the signpost
forest in 1942 there was a simple sign post pointing out distances to various
points along the road the sign was damaged by a bulldozer
private carl k lindley serving with the 341st engineers
was ordered to repair the sign and decided to personalize the job by adding
a sign pointing towards his hometown danville illinois
and then he gave the distance it's just something people do in the military back
in world war ii korea and vietnam and stuff several
other people added directions their hometown
and the idea has been snowballing ever since the signpost forest now takes up
over two acres of land
alright that's today's video i hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some
information out of it now you know where all the little towns are in canada
actually you have no idea because there are so many little towns
up in all these little different areas it's crazy i'd love to do another one of
these if this one gets enough comments likes and all that good stuff and views
we'll do another one if you have any ideas for towns we could put on the next
list let me know in the comment section below
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